Business Law
Business Law News 2015, Issue 2
Content
- Bln Editorial Board: Message from the Issue Editor
- Business Law News Editoral Team
- Executive Committee: Message from the Chair
- Executive Committee of the Business Law Section 2014-2015
- Health Law Basics for Business Lawyers
- In the Absence of Agreement: California Courts Define Pricing for Non-contracted Medical Services
- Navigating Due Diligence in Health Care Transactions: Sensitive Information and Pitfalls
- Standing Committee Officers of the Business Law Section 2014-2015
- Table of Contents
- The Abyss of Managed Care and its 40-Year Impact on Payer/Provider Relations
- Using Statistics to Determine Whether Causation is Adequately Proven in Medical Malpractice Actions Involving Multiple Events Preceding the Injury
- What is the Meaning of Meaningful Use? How to Decode the Opportunities and Risks in Health Information Technology
- The Decay of California's Prohibition of the Corporate Practice of Medicine
The Decay of California’s Prohibition of the Corporate Practice of Medicine
Craig B. Garner
Craig Garner is an attorney and health care consultant, specializing in issues surrounding modern American health care in its current climate of reform. Between 2002 and 2011, Craig was the Chief Executive Officer at Coast Plaza Hospital. Craig is also a Fellow with the American College of Healthcare Executives.
"There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept."1
In the 1990s, dentists in North Carolina began to whiten teeth.2 A decade later, nondentists across the state began to provide the same services, but at a lower price.3 In 2006, the North Carolina State Board of Dental Examiners (the "N.C. Dental Board") responded by issuing more than 47 cease-and-desist letters to parties whitening teeth without degrees in dentistry, and in 2007 the N.C. Dental Board enlisted the aid of the North Carolina Board of Cosmetic Art Examiners to issue similar warnings, specifically to cosmetologists.4 Their combined efforts were successful, and North Carolina nondentists soon stopped offering teeth whitening services.5